5:42 PM,
Mar. 21, 2013

Gerard Butler, left, and Aaron Eckhart appear in a scene from the motion picture 'Olympus Has Fallen.'

Written by

Barbara VanDenburgh
Gannett

There's a lot of flag waving. A lot in "Olympus Has Fallen." We're talking actual, literal flags: new flags resplendently waving in the dawn's early light, bullet-riddled flags, flags on fire, flags trampled under the boots of foreign oppressors. It's all window dressing for the figurative flag waving that happens when you strip "Die Hard" of its intelligence and charm and instead serve up its lone wolf vs. foreign baddies premise with a serving of jingoism and destruction porn.